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Originally Posted by here today
If the professionals have expectations about clients, including what they need communicated to them, it could help a lot if they would make that explicit. I'm not at all sure that it's a client's responsibility to know in advance of starting therapy that expecting the therapist to "fix" them, or even read their minds, is unreasonable, from their uninformed perspective.
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Very true. It should be explicitly spelled out that therapy is not magic. It's mostly a ton of work...assuming what you want from therapy is real change in emotions or behavior. And some people don't want that. Some people just want someone to listen to them or someone to accept them. I'm not saying that is bad either. It's just not why I go to therapy.
So maybe what therapists should do more of is set reasonable expectations.